First Light Machine

Credit: Astrodon Imaging, Dr. Don Goldman

In the quiet
Explosion
Of the darkest time
Emerges a stranger
To itself
A vision of a filled
Emptiness
Cascading in ellipses
As a symphony of color
An arc thought
At most –
A reflection
Of potential
Of a frightened,
Innermost ghost.

Credit: Peter Tuthill (Sydney U.) & James Lloyd (Cornell)

Angles of nature
Mark
The past of tomorrow
Within progenitor whispers
Thier secrets of movement
Their tell –
Banished
And then somehow expelled.

Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI

Icy cracked dynamics
Within a wrinkled
Wrecked terrain

Locks on human wonder
Through new horizons
Of insane.

Credit: NASA / ESA

Magnetar models
Detect and define
A flash –
Of raw power
Refined,
By pure time.

Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA

Lost
At home
In the sea of darkness
The God delivers
Its message
Of age
Of singularity
Of fear
Then,
The limitless order
Of hope.

Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage (STScI / AURA) / Hubble-Europe Collaboration Acknowledgment: D. Padgett (GSFC), T. Megeath (University of Toledo), B. Reipurth (University of Hawaii)

A crackle
A shift
A capture
A rift
An affirmation of existence
In a second, of drift.

Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins U. APL, SwRI

A cascading morphology
From impact,
To change

Reveals a syntax
Of energy
Redefining, its range.

Credit & Copyright: Fritz Helmut Hemmerich

A scream
Of cold silence
Projects the angry message
Of presence
Within a marker of the maker
From the future
Of history
To the creation
Of now.

Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA

A violent void in matter
A vision blacked with shade
A vector for our wisdom
Details a dream –
That’s not afraid.

Credit: Jesús Vargas (Sky-Astrophotography) & Maritxu Poyal (Maritxu)

A lethal ascension
Of an age old desire
Leaves the water and land
For the air and its fire.